Wise Poets of the Present
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium…
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type…
Stephen King The Master of Dark Fiction: Halloween Horror Month Part I
Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and…
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat No lengthy discussion of poetry in the English speaking world would be complete without recognizing a great poet of present day…
The Invisible Writer: A Lesson Learned in Simplicity
Writers are sometimes temperamental creatures, as artists go, and I was sometimes temperamental and a little over confident in my skills, since it takes a fairly strong ego to think…
More Wisdom Lessons Learned About Writing
Dear Writing community, I just want to apologize for the lateness of this blog post. I have been very deeply under the health weather, but it is not due to…
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years
Some Writing Tips of My Own that I Learned Through the Years I am a strictly a poet and a non-fiction writer, so writing fiction is out of my league….
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea
Twitter’s Own (Kattt): On The Cutting Edge of a Scotland Sea 1. When did you start writing and why? Kattt – I started writing in my late teens. My niece…
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature
Sandra Cisneros: Wise Poet of Chicana Literature The Chicana writers are a group of poets and authors of a current Mexican/American “cultural hybridity” tradition. And Sandra Cisneros is one of…
Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview
Daily Wisdom’s Own Island Poet Michelle Hugelmann: An Interview 1, Michelle, can you tell us where you are from and a little about your current life, work and any special…
Abuh Monday and His Wise Reflections on His Life and Works
Abuh Monday and His Wise Reflections on His Life and Works Nigeria is one place like any other place that possesses the ability of making and destroying a man and…
Modern Sonnet
Modern Sonnet Although the forms of the classical 14 line Petrarchan and English sonnets were written in stone, time marches on and with that onward march comes change. The post…
Twitter Driven Micro Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets
Twitter Driven Micro-Poetry: The Hot New Trend for Wise Poets The decade of the 90’s sand beyond 2000 was the age of the short poem, with the submission guidelines averaging…
Canada’s Jamie Routley: The Voice of Contemporary Romance
Canada’s Jamie Routley The Voice of Today’s Contemporary Romance Today’s romance poetry is different from that of the Romantic era in that it is more realistic because it includes verse…
Now Presenting India’s Own Up and Coming Indie Author
Now Presenting India’s Own Indie Author Yasir Sulaiman Yasir Sulaiman is the prolific author od five books written on the dark side of love; Who is There: Two Tales of…
Now Presenting Daily Wisdom Words Own Poet Guildford Windley
Now Presenting Daily Wisdom Words Own Poet Guildford Windley Almost all poets are deeply affected by happenings in childhood and important people along the way, and this is Poet Guildford’s…
Joy Harjo: Modern Edition of the American Indian Oral Tradition
Joy Harjo: Modern Edition of the American Indian Oral Tradition At the beginning of the the 20th century living conditions for Native Americans were so bad life came down to…
The Greek Greats: The Austerity Songs
The Greek Greats: The Austerity Songs It seems that good poetry always comes on the heels of deep suffering and today’s Greek poets are no different. And my, how the…
Wise Poets of the Past
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III Ah, Agatha Christie, Her wildly popular murder mysteries have kept readers gleefully occupied on cold winter nights for decades….
e e cummings: The Experimental Poet
Today’s prevailing wisdom in literary circles is that language is fluid and the rules of grammar can be bent, as long as the skilled author intuitively knows it works. And…
Emma Lazarus Wants “Your Tired and Your Poor
The Iconic poem ‘The New Colossus” was one sonnet all American children had to read in school, at least those of us in the Baby Boom generation. And the words…
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Radical English Poet of Social Change
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England to a well heeled noble family and enjoyed a pleasant rural childhood. And although his father Timothy Shelley…
Johnathan Edwards Preached the American House Down
Tucked deep in the annals of classic American literature you will find a recorded sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that literally brought the Thirteen Colonies…
H.I.E. Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid
HIE Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid South Africa is a land rich in history and literature which can boast of up to eleven official languages, including English….
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist Emerson may have been an ordained minister and the son of an ordained minister, but he was anything but a Christian. He was…
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense Some poets are famous for only one poem, and Francis Scott Key, a Fredrick, Maryland lawyer is the amateur poet who…
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World
Mary Oliver and Her Wise Connection to the Natural World Mary Oliver was such a natural born poet that she started writing by the young age of 14, eventually winning…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sweet Lady Poet of the Love Sonnet Elizabeth Browning was the proverbial child prodigy who began writing at the early age of 11, and her lifetime body…
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of the Wise Poets
Sonnets Are the ‘Little Songs’ of Wise Poets Form. Form. Form. Form is what the sonnet is all about. All types of sonnets are written by the same basic rules…
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry
Excilia Saldaña: La Latina Matriarch of Cuban Poetry Award winning Cuban poetess Excilia Saldaña is the Wise Poet of this week. Born in on August 7, 1946, she was raised…
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South
Writer William Faulkner: The Free Spirit of the South William Faulkner, he was the legend the English class who was known as the writer whose intellect was so big that…
Ezra Pound: The Wise Poet Arrested for Treason
Erza Pound: The Wise Poet Arrested for Treason Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born in the rural Idaho on October 30, 1885, was a pioneer in the early Imagist movement in…
Dr. Geisel Seuss: The Pied Piper of Children’s Poetry
Dr. Seuss: The Pied Piper of Children’s Poetry Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, was the author who spirited away a generation of children from their…
Mark Twain: Man of the Mighty Mississippi
Mark Twain: The Man of the Mighty Mississippi The stock advise for aspiring writers is to “Write what you know,” and Mark Twain did just that. He was born, with…
They Kissed the Blarney Stone: The Wise Bards of Ireland
They Kissed the Blarney Stone: The Wise Bards of Ireland With the advent of Christianity and monasteries in Ireland came the commencement of a new age of literacy and alphabet…
Ernest Hemingway: The Paradox of a Full and Empty Life
Ernest Hemingway: The Paradox of a Full and Empty Life Ernest Hemingway was what you call a “Man’s Man”, and he did just about everything. He was a traveler, a…